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Sinaloa Cartel - InSight Crime
Mar 15, 2024 · Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) The Sinaloa Cartel, considered the largest and most powerful drug trafficking organization in the Western Hemisphere, is a network of some of Mexico’s most important drug lords. Members work together to protect themselves. During its existence, the Sinaloa Cartel has forged connections at the ...
Confidential Informants: a ‘Double Edged Sword’ for Law …
Apr 24, 2023 · Confidential Informants: a ‘Double Edged Sword’ for Law Enforcement. by Mike LaSusa 10 Dec 2015. An excerpt from the indictment of "Don H". The use of confidential informants by US law enforcement has led to the recent arrests of several high-level actors in the international drug trade, but these successes may be overshadowing the ...
Criminal Violence Paralyzes Mexico’s Southern State of Guerrero
Feb 13, 2024 · Criminal Violence Paralyzes Mexico’s Southern State of Guerrero. by Sara Garcia and Daniela Valle 13 Feb 2024. Ongoing battles between several crime groups over lucrative criminal economies like extortion have sparked a new wave of violence in Mexico’s southern state of Guerrero, highlighting the multitude of factors driving insecurity in ...
How Bukele’s Government Overpowered Gangs: Major Findings
Dec 6, 2023 · How Bukele’s Government Overpowered Gangs: Summary & Major Findings. In March 2022, the government of El Salvador launched one of the most relentless security crackdowns in its history in its latest attempt to debilitate the country’s three main gangs — the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13), the Barrio 18 Revolucionarios (18R), and the Barrio ...
Why the Jalisco Cartel Does Not Dominate Mexico's Criminal …
by Victoria Dittmar 11 Jun 2020. Headlines and US indictments have confidently proclaimed the Jalisco Cartel to be Mexico’s dominant criminal group. But while it is certainly one of the country’s principal national security threats, the reality on the ground is far more complex as the group is embroiled in a patchwork of rivalries nationwide.
MS13 in the Americas: Major Findings - InSight Crime
Feb 16, 2018 · Below are our major findings. The MS13 is a largely urban phenomenon that has cells operating in two continents. The MS13 has between 50,000 and 70,000 members who are concentrated in mostly urban areas in Central America or locations outside the region where there is a large Central American diaspora. In Honduras and Guatemala, the gang is ...
Mexico - Organized Crime News in Mexico - InSight Crime
Oct 1, 2024 · Mexico. Mexico is home to some of the hemisphere’s largest, most sophisticated and violent organized criminal groups. These organizations have drawn from Mexico’s long history of smuggling and its close proximity to the United States, the world’s largest economy, to grow into a regional threat. Read full profile. Criminal Actors.
Study Shows Prison Gangs Rule Much More than Penitentiaries
Apr 24, 2023 · Much More than Prison Gangs. The very term “prison gangs” is inadequate. Groups like California’s Mexican Mafia, Central America’s maras, and the facções criminais (criminal factions) of Brazil may have arisen in a context of small, predatory inmate groups, but they have all expanded into large organizations operating in multiple ...
Gulf Cartel Remains Main Criminal Threat at US-Mexico Border
May 18, 2023 · Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) Bullet casings left behind from a CJNG vs. Gulf Cartel shootout in Tula, Tamaulipas in 2022. The Gulf Cartel has maintained a presence along the US-Mexico border across from south Texas for nearly a century, but recent events suggest that criminal dynamics may be changing in this strategic corridor.